[COMMENT: Now this is an interesting attention-grabbing headline; but is it useful? “Property outperforms…” This can’t refer to all property, it must be an average across, perhaps, all markets and locations. And in this mix there must be some happy winners, and some sorry losers. So how useful is news such as this?]

‘Residential property was the best performing asset class between 2005 and 2015 but more recent data suggests that the tide may be turning as property prices in Perth and Darwin head south and the froth shows tentative signs of coming out of the Melbourne and Sydney markets. Comprehensive analysis by consultancy Russell Investments found that…’ <snipped…>